Joining LOTR TTT Extended version

[Klaus9000]

Last night I tried to combine both disks of the Two Towers extended version onto one disk for use in my trucks DVD player. I also tried this last year with the Fellowship disks. I first followed the tutorial from:

http://www.sirscrub.com/lotr.htm

I followed the directions exactly and the disk I created seemed fine had 70+ chapters and I could jump around no problem. However, when I played the disk all the way through it got stuck at the point where the first disk ends. There was several minutes missing maybe even a chapter – I needed to manually advance the chapter to about the 2nd chapter of the 2nd disk. This is much like what I experienced last year with Fellowship – I had to advance through the middle section.

Next I gave the “join” feature of DVD2One a try. Ripped both disks and selected them both in DVD2One with no pause in between. DVD2One did it’s thing but I only ended up with disk one in my output folder totaling the entire 4.5gb (30 chapters). Any advice for me am I missing something?? Thanks

[farmer dan]

Since I don't wish to compress, my experience is more with "splitting" than with "joining." However, you may have encountered a problem similar to the one that I solved (?) in manipulating the same series of movies. I just now "scanned" the joining guide you referenced and didn't see any allusion to what I'm about to write.

The trick to this may be in looking at the VTS Overview for the movie in IFO Edit. I learned this when my movie would play to the end--don't forget, it was a "split" and not a "join"--and then lock the player. It "locked" PowerDVD also. When I played it with "Play DVD" in IFO Edit, I got the error message "Could not read file." In the VTS Overview, I discovered that the movie used a second PGC consisting of fifteen blank frames to control the angles and layer breaks. It is possible that you have encountered the same situation. I recommend that you analyse the VTS Overview--that's what appears in the lower part of the screen when you open VTS_xx_0.IFO in IFO Edit--to see if this might be the case. You can then strip this PGC from the movie with the tool of your choice.

I am preparing a post for the forum which describes this in more detail, but I haven't yet completed it.

Hope this works for you.

[Klaus9000]

Hmm that's interesting, I will give it a look tonight. I am just learning this stuff but I think I can follow your post. Thanks for the input.

[farmer dan]

I just posted the "more detail" here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=65333). Hope it helps.

[Klaus9000]

Thanks. I was able to get DVD2One to actually work in join mode last night. Quality seemed pretty decent.